Ish sucks venom from a snakebite in Earth Abides. But experts agree: Don't do this!
Is it a good idea to suck out the venom out of a rattlesnake bite? The protagonist in the new dystopian television series Earth Abides seems to think so (and he survives the bite, so perhaps the producers of the series believe so as well). Likewise, doctors in the Middle Ages encouraged a good sucking to extract sn…